EchoTrail

PerfWatson2.exe

by Microsoft
Development Tool

Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.

Summary

Visual Studio performance monitoring tool

PerfWatson2.exe is the 1862nd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 378 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE and it is most often launched by devenv.exe.

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1862nd
most commonly executed Windows program
378
observed endpoint executions

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE65.96%
  • C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\Common7\IDE20.05%
  • D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\Common7\IDE10.82%
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\Common7\IDE1.85%
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE0.79%
  • D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\Common7\IDE0.53%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • 4e9ddd056e35f8a022aa87879ea18d97035a8e2b41272adc9de5df09e961bb0c62.99%
  • 26cf1b00b117c246da3de2d06e36d5a2f53e19a63025fdc3ea59a6825f79eacd9.6%
  • 85c839b4e5841d2987660ab294e73e77cfb5c8fd00e0ba1360259833995257917.63%
  • ea3ab5e0e793f73b897bc6b7bad24c20fe1a67484ab609b2ce8535e36bc881116.21%
  • 0a4c90f2b842ac29d839c79c2b28f3e1cca40f4bbbc3f4c80ca76a51254e079c4.8%
  • e0423658d429e2ccfedf8ce5e5e902f45256a55fc7789d72a8eb3e4af8e758ff4.24%
  • 2fc966cc85544570a4ea4ac29369e95a84f81593186d7ccfdc86a979ded211171.41%
  • db10b115f77480845ff69ecfbe4000d7990035f4349c06fb10b8beaf90d31d051.13%
  • 96f0dd9ef89b168390fcb9e79a6b2e7f80b92bc87f6c47c6ac51c865e87500610.85%
  • a9b07b55b249a2393040895e95e7dc8f06a98058c0d9db5364d205ffea7c42620.56%

Process Ancestry

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